Immortal Diamond The Search for Our True Self (Audible Audio Edition) Richard Rohr Kevin Pierce Audible Studios Books
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Dissolve the distractions of ego to find our authentic selves in God.
In his best-selling book Falling Upward, Richard Rohr talked about ego (or the False Self) and how it gets in the way of spiritual maturity. But if there's a False Self, is there also a True Self? What is it? How is it found? Why does it matter? And what does it have to do with the spiritual journey? This book likens True Self to a diamond, buried deep within us, formed under the intense pressure of our lives, that must be searched for, uncovered, separated from all the debris of ego that surrounds it. In a sense True Self must, like Jesus, be resurrected, and that process is not resuscitation but transformation.
- Shows how to navigate spiritually difficult terrain with clear vision and tools to uncover our True Selves
- Written by Father Richard Rohr, the best-selling author of Falling Upward
- Examines the fundamental issues of who we are and helps us on our path of spiritual maturity
Immortal Diamond (whose title is taken from a line in a Gerard Manley Hopkins poem) explores the deepest questions of identity, spirituality, and meaning in Richard Rohr's inimitable style.
Immortal Diamond The Search for Our True Self (Audible Audio Edition) Richard Rohr Kevin Pierce Audible Studios Books
I liked this book a lot. I took a lot of quotes down. The hard part is how to apply it. It is one of those reads that you wish you could just assimilate all of the teachings, but at the same time you don't know where to even start.The ideas were compelling, but distant for me. Father Roar both inspires me and also makes me wonder if I even understand what he is saying. He is a mystic and I struggle with silence. My mind races, well more like jogs, and it is hard to make it take a seat. Contemplation asks you to take a seat while life is rushing around you.
Anyway...about that book. It's basic premise is that you are a piece of God in a way. Yes, you are you, but you are also divine. Religion tends to ask its adherents to find God out there, but God is really in you...once you get rid of your "false self." As he says, "That God is both utterly beyond me and yet totally within me at the same time is the exquisite balance that most religion seldom achieves..."
A good portion of the book takes shots, with good reason in my opinion, of the way religion is done today.
"The religious False Self can even justify racism, slavery, war, and total denial or deception and feel no guilt whatsoever, because “they think they are doing a holy duty for God” (John 16:2). The ego has found its cover, so be quite careful about being religious. If your religion does not transform your consciousness to one of compassion, it is more a part of the problem than any solution."
He is open to truth from wherever it comes from, which I find very appealing. I really like this analogy of finding the Way without being a "true believer."
"I also know that being a Christian today does not demand that you walk this map or recognize this deep pattern to reality. It is too often just a club to join. Indeed, many non-Christians see it, honor it, and live it much better than those who claim to be true believers. You have not been to Russia just because you have a correct map of Russia, and you can fully experience Russia without ever owning the map."
Anyway, read it if you are a seeker. Rohr will intrigue you if nothing else.
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Immortal Diamond The Search for Our True Self (Audible Audio Edition) Richard Rohr Kevin Pierce Audible Studios Books Reviews
I can’t praise this book enough. It is a book to read and re-read until it’s truth begins to sink in. This is The Way pilgrims. Happily, Father Rohr can’t be silenced by the ecclesiastical police, the way Tielhard de Chardin was, so he can speak freely. His message is revolutionary, yet he is simply passing on what Jesus taught, before His teaching was tamed, re-packaged and turned into idolatry. Passing Christ’s message on is a difficult job for our ego will be outraged. It will fight tooth and nail to kill it. For that reason we need all the help we can get. Rohr is a profound and wise teacher, an invaluable guide to find your True Self. It is men like him who will save Christianity from irrelevance.
Father Rohr is a clear thinker and a clear writer. Even though I am an agnostic and pretty staunchly
uncomfortable with any religious institutions - and Fr. Rohr is definitely a Catholic, I find his ideas
and the way he burrows into them inspiring. He is one of the few people I've read anywhere who I
might describe as 'wise.'
My soul likes him.
I LOVE this book! It contains so much Spiritual wisdom. It is the stuff that you wish someone had said so many times. Yet no one talks about this stuff. While this is written by a Catholic Priest the book itself is not about being Catholic, it is about being HUMAN! It isn't about any specific religion, it is about finding and saving yourself within a sea of dogma. I recommend it to all of my clients. As a Spiritual Coach /Counselor I have spend years helping people find them-self when religion is not serving their needs and yet they know there is something more out there for them. That journey is highly personal, that each person who chooses the venture must go on alone. But this book helps explain the confusion that so many feel surrounding the search for their True Self. Finding their True Self is a human's biggest mission, yet it is hardly ever discussed in today's religion. It is the greatest gift I have witnessed each client find for them-self, and I highly encourage everyone to go on their own personal journey, with this book in hand. At Academy of Spirit, my counseling center, it is required reading, and while some find it somewhat complicated everyone finds the effort made in reading and implementing this book's teachings to be a life changing experience.
This book changed my life-
the soul is larger than the ego- much larger- we are ALREADY successful!
the resurrection says it all-
Quit building your life around your obsession with victimhood and GET in the present-
You can LOVE! Like Mary waiting at the tomb, hoping emotionally spiritually that Christ is alive, while knowing cognitively (she saw him die) that Christ was DEAD- yet she had faith in the the unknown, that which can not be seen with our senses. If you want prosperity/fame/love in your life, visualize abundance - it is not as elusive as you imagined. With FAITH and belief- like Mary- you will witness the resurrection (of the thing that REALLY matters- love)
I had been stuck in unsuccessful relationships after my husband died- after I read this book, my
self identity evolved past fear and blossomed into something all-encompassing, iluminating and
larger- touched upon the DIVINE me. No longer am I desperate for a man's comfort- I am
comfortable all by myself.
LOVED the quote from the Brothers Karamozov- I read that book maybe 20 years ago and Rohr's use of this (butterfly effect) quote crystallizes his thesis succintly!
LOVE LOVE LOVE!!!!
I liked this book a lot. I took a lot of quotes down. The hard part is how to apply it. It is one of those reads that you wish you could just assimilate all of the teachings, but at the same time you don't know where to even start.
The ideas were compelling, but distant for me. Father Roar both inspires me and also makes me wonder if I even understand what he is saying. He is a mystic and I struggle with silence. My mind races, well more like jogs, and it is hard to make it take a seat. Contemplation asks you to take a seat while life is rushing around you.
Anyway...about that book. It's basic premise is that you are a piece of God in a way. Yes, you are you, but you are also divine. Religion tends to ask its adherents to find God out there, but God is really in you...once you get rid of your "false self." As he says, "That God is both utterly beyond me and yet totally within me at the same time is the exquisite balance that most religion seldom achieves..."
A good portion of the book takes shots, with good reason in my opinion, of the way religion is done today.
"The religious False Self can even justify racism, slavery, war, and total denial or deception and feel no guilt whatsoever, because “they think they are doing a holy duty for God” (John 162). The ego has found its cover, so be quite careful about being religious. If your religion does not transform your consciousness to one of compassion, it is more a part of the problem than any solution."
He is open to truth from wherever it comes from, which I find very appealing. I really like this analogy of finding the Way without being a "true believer."
"I also know that being a Christian today does not demand that you walk this map or recognize this deep pattern to reality. It is too often just a club to join. Indeed, many non-Christians see it, honor it, and live it much better than those who claim to be true believers. You have not been to Russia just because you have a correct map of Russia, and you can fully experience Russia without ever owning the map."
Anyway, read it if you are a seeker. Rohr will intrigue you if nothing else.
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